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Purpose of 18 U.S.C. § 1028

Section 1028 of Title 18 is intended to give the federal prosecutor
an
effective tool with reasonable penalties to deal with the federal aspects of
the
false identification problem involving governmental identification documents
and
certain implements used in manufacturing those documents. Different
provisions
of the section may be applicable to crimes involving terrorism, illegal
immigration, organized crime, narcotic trafficking, welfare fraud, white
collar
crime, smuggling, firearms violations, and flight from justice, to name a
few.
18 U.S.C. § 1028 is limited to governmental identification documents,
but it
is very broad because it covers all those issued by federal, state, local,
foreign, international and quasi-international governmental entities.

Section 1028 requires that the indictment be drafted to describe
properly (1) the prohibited act,(2) the federal jurisdictional
circumstances, and
(3) the facts necessary for a determination of the appropriate penalty.